Economical in the use or appropriation of money, goods or provisions of any kind; saving unnecessary expense, either of money or of any thing else which is to be used or consumed; sparing; not profuse, prodigal or lavish. We ought to be frugal not only in the expenditure of money and of goods, but in the employment of time. It is followed by of, before the thing saved; as frugal of time. It is not synonymous with parsimonious, nor with thrifty, as now used.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. Economical in the use or appropriation of resources; not wasteful or lavish; wise in the expenditure or application of force, materials, time, etc.; characterized by frugality; sparing; economical; saving; as, a frugal housekeeper; frugal of time.
2. Obtained by, or appropriate to, economy; as, a frugal fortune.
of Frugality
1. Prudent economy; good husbandry or housewifery; a sparing use or appropriation of money or commodities; a judicious use of any thing to be expended or employed; that careful management of money or goods which expends nothing unnecessarily, and applies what is used to a profitable purpose; that use in which nothing is wasted. It is not equivalent to parsimony, the latter being an excess of frugality and a fault. frugality is always a virtue. Nor is it synonymous with thrift, in its proper sense; for thrift is the effect of frugality
2. Without frugality none can become rich, and with it few would be poor.
1. The quality of being frugal; prudent economy; that careful management of anything valuable which expends nothing unnecessarily, and applies what is used to a profitable purpose; thrift; --- opposed to extravagance.
2. A sparing use; sparingness; as, frugality of praise.
With economy; with good management; in a saving manner. He seldom lives frugally that lives by chance.
Economy Roget’s Thesaurus §817
N. economy, frugality, thrift, thriftiness, care, # husbandry, good housewifery, savingness, retrenchment, savings, prevention of waste, save-all, cheese parings and candle ends, parsimony, cost-cutting, cost control
V. be economical, practice economy, economize, save, retrench, cut back expenses, cut expenses, cut one's coat according to one's cloth, make both ends meet, keep within compass, meet one's expenses, pay one's way, pay as you go, husband, save money, invest money, put out to interest, provide for a rainy day, save for a rainy day, provide against a rainy day, save against a rainy day, feather one's nest, look after the main chance, cut costs
Adv. sparingly, ne quid nimis
Phr. adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit, magnum est vectigal parsimonia
Temperance Roget’s Thesaurus §953
N. temperance, moderation, sobriety, soberness, # forbearance, abnegation, self-denial, self-restraint, self-control, frugality, vegetarianism, teetotalism, total abstinence, abstinence, abstemiousness, encratism, prohibition, system of pythagoras, system of cornaro, pythagorism, stoicism, vegetarian, pythagorean, gymnosophist, teetotaler, abstainer, designated driver, encratite, fruitarian, hydropot|
V. be temperate, abstain, forbear, refrain, deny oneself, spare, swear off, know when one has had enough, know one's limit, take the pledge, go on the wagon
Adj. temperate, moderate, sober, frugal, sparing, abstemious, abstinent, within compass, measured, on the wagon, on the water wagon, dry, pythagorean, vegetarian, teetotal
Phr. appetitus rationi obediant, l'abstenir pour jouir c'est l'epicurisme de la raison, trahit sua quemque voluptas
No Bible verses found for "frugal".